27.02.2024 | Letter to the Editor
Letter to the editor concerning "characteristics of baseline frequency data in spinal RCTs do not suggest widespread non-random allocation" by MMS Levayer, et al. (Eur Spine J; 2023; 32: 3009–3014)
verfasst von:
Mark J. Bolland, Alison Avenell, Andrew Grey
Erschienen in:
European Spine Journal
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Ausgabe 4/2024
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Excerpt
Levayer and colleagues looked for non-random baseline data from 167 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in 4 spine journals, concluding that there was no evidence of ‘systemic fraudulent behaviour’ [
1]. The authors should be congratulated for such a major undertaking and making data available with their publication. However, fraud is merely a subset of compromised publication integrity [
2]. There are reasons to be cautious about the integrity of publications within the spine journal dataset. …